First Pictures of Earth From 65 Miles in Space! 

First Pictures of Earth From 65 Miles in Space! 

The White Sands rocket (official name V-2 No. 13) was a modified V-2 rocket that became the first man-made object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. Launched on 24 October 1946, at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65 mi (105 km).

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The famous photograph was taken with an attached DeVry 35 mm black-and-white motion picture camera.